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Pulmonary issues - Newbie


Posted: Aug 31, 2010

I'm having huge problems with this pulmonary dictation.  "Chest CT 2010, no interstitial fibrosis.  Mild linear (s/l clinical) scarring in the lower lobes, right middle lobe, and lingual. PFTs-moderate restrictive lung disease.  (s/l Mild decrease and diffuse in capacity.)  Repeat PFTs - no significant change - (s/l duke) pulmonary - diffusion problem.  (s/l also 2 homo 2.) Desats."

On the 'also 2 homo 2', she does seem like she is stumbling over her words, so the only relevant part of that rambling may be the "homo 2" part.  The patient did go to Duke for her cardiac problems, so Duke could be a possibility there, but it would make the sentence even more broken.  Where it sounds like 'clinical', there is at least one more syllable in the word, but it's hard to tell exactly where.  The second s/l just doesn't seem to make sense the way it sounds.  I would greatly appreciate any and all help!!

homo-2 is "home O2" (home oxygen) - ltt

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Wow, I should have known that one. Thanks! - Newbie

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Duke pulmonary is correct, named after the Duke Company - the tobacco farmers, (see message)

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I knew this but I did type Duke pulmonary and it came up right away in google, a good search engine. Lots of other Duke names that you will run across in transcribing, but this indeed is named after the big tobacco producer that causes lung diseases.

pulmonary... - Just me

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Probably too late, but could (s/l Mild decrease and diffuse in capacity.) be "Mild decrease in diffusion capacity"


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